Living In The Moment Quotes

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”
― Shaun Hick

“The presence of a dog is a powerful catalyst, helping us rekindle the forgotten impulse of playfulness. Dogs invite us to enjoy the unsuspected moments that break the monotony of everyday life, reorienting us toward the freedom of simply "being" and reminding us of the importance of living in the "moment." ("I am young and have no dog")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.”
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia

“Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.”
― J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance

“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves...”
― William Landay, The Strangler: A Novel

“Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.”
― Andrew Ashling

“I couldn't have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“Coley and I had to separate to get around a girl who was mostly eclipsed by the size of the power she was carrying some sort of project about World War II—a picture of Hitler doing his mustachioed Sieg heil, a gaunt concentration camp victim, a couple of American soldiers smoking cigarettes and scowling at the camera, the captions beneath each photo in glitter-bubble letters. If this had been the movie version of my life, I knew, somebody who did teenage stuff well, some director, would have lingered on that poster and maybe even have swelled some poignant music, out is in slow motion as the hallway continued on at regular speed around us, backlit the three of us—Coley and the poster board chick and me—and in doing so tried to make some statement about teenage frivolity and prom season as it stacked up against something authentic and horrible like war. But if renting all those movies had taught me anything more than how to lose myself in them, it was that you only actually have perfectly profound little moments like that in real life if you recognize them yourself, do all the fancy shot work and editing in your head, usually in the very seconds that whatever is happening is happening. And even if you do manage to do so, just about never does anyone else you’re with at the time experience that exact same kind of moment, and it’s impossible to explain as it’s happening, and then the moment is over.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“What makes the world so special?” she asked God, her voice laced with curiosity.
“Your presence,” God replied instantly, “for it brings light and meaning to all that exists.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“Nobody wins at war and fight is the desolation of the oppressor.”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Time is the meaning behind moments.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“I had all night for everything I felt to become memories.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Our entire lives are made up of moments and the tiniest pieces of right now.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“I am someone who has stepped through the door, someone who has accepted the possibility of a life beyond routine and self-misery. I have accepted the challenge of life and I now see it as something that must be overcome. I challenge you, young man, to see the weight and measure of life, to look for the places
in between here and there, and to try and battle against that devil that screams in your head, that devil that wants to make you take the easy path, that makes you want to hate yourself and the world, that wants to make you think that somehow you are special in your struggles and in your fate. Wake up boy, or the only thing that you will ever find at the end of all your routine and self-misery, is your death”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“The problem with the world is that most people are living slightly ahead of reality, in a kind of confused panic mode. If they only could slow down their minds and arrive in the present moment of reality. Then, I am sure the world would be improved.”
― Jack Freestone

“The problem with the world is that most people are living slightly ahead of reality, in a kind of confused panic mode, constantly manifesting and projecting their own futures. If they could only slow down their minds and arrive in the present moment of reality, then, I am sure their world and the overall world would be improved.”
― Jack Freestone

“I was a woman strung together with glitter and wishes. A midnight apparition cast in the coldest winters. I would not be here tomorrow. But tonight I would drink champagne until my veins ran in golden, bubbling streams. I would dance until the ice in my heart melted. Kiss until my lips bruised. And I would live until it hurt.”
― M. A. Kuzniar

“There is a relief in letting go, allowing the future and the past to drop away, to become someone without a hope or fear beyond this moment. Someone for whom there was only ever this fight and there will only ever be this fight.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Because of my injury and my horses, whose lives depend on always living in the present, I, too, have come to value living in the present moment.”
― Terri Mongait, Finding True Purpose: Life Beyond The Castle

“Didn't you learn anything today? Life is precious and it's, like, it's really short. You shouldn't waste it in toxic places.”
― H. T. Boyd

“We live in the moment because not everyone follows the same expectation.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“A bad life is one that begins at the end.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“We are given this moment.
To hold gently.
To fill with meaning.
and then let go.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Hurry up honey, I say, hurry hurry,
as she runs along two or three steps behind me
her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.

Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?
To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“I just preferred living day to day: the only strategy I'd found to successfully immunize myself against both the past and the future.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

“None of this made sense, but we were alive, for now at least, and we had each other, and that was something.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook